Word: margin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Huskies carried the 1-0 lead into the second period, but their 14-0 margin in shots was a more telling statistics...
...Crimson totally dominated the match, pounding the Bruins by a 9-0 margin and taking 27 of the 28 games played...
...Somerville count follows a Sunday night recount in Medford which showed Albano increasing his margin in the city from 5 to 221 votes over Piro (D-Somerville). Albano led Piro by 1831 votes overall in the original tally...
...Republican candidate. West Virginia's John D. ("Jay") Rockefeller IV, 47, also faced a wobbly Republican opponent and had also been considered a shoo-in; yet TV network-news polls reported early Tuesday evening that Republican Businessman John R. Raese was winning. Rockefeller ended up winning by a margin of 4%. "I saw the Reagan coattails coming," declared Rockefeller, who lost his first gubernatorial election in the 1972 Nixon landslide...
...Rockefeller may have done himself some damage too. The surname means money, and he spent profligately on his campaign: more than $9 million, $7 million of it from his own funds. "Jay's spending was obscene," said Raese. A huge pro-Reagan turnout also cut into his margin. In all, Rockefeller is lucky that he faced Raese, 34, a political novice who made tactical blunders regularly...